Privacy Policy

PROfound Leadership

Last updated: 16 May 2018

We know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will respect your privacy. PROfound Leadership is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.

Unless we link to a different policy or state otherwise, this Privacy Policy applies when you visit or use the PROfound Leadership website, mobile applications, APIs or related service.

By using our services, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. You shouldn’t use the Services if you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy or any other agreement that governs your use of the Services.

1. What Data Do We Get

We collect certain data from you directly, like information you enter yourself, data about purchase, or data about your participation in courses, and data from third-party platforms you connect with PROfound Leadership. We also collect some data automatically, like information about your device and what parts of our Services you interact with or spend time using.

a. Data You Provide to Us

We may collect different data from or about you depending on how you use the Services. Below are some examples to help you better understand the data we collect. When you create an account and use the Services, including through a third-party platform, we collect any data you provide directly, including:

Account Data: In order to use certain features (like enrolling in a course), you need to create a user account. When you create or update your account, we collect and store the data you provide, like your email address, password, gender, and date of birth, and assign you a unique identifying number.

Profile Data: You can also choose to provide profile information like a photo, headline, website link, social media profiles, or other data. Your Profile Data will be publicly viewable by others.

Shared Content: Parts of the Services let you interact with other users or share content publicly, including by posting reviews on a course page, asking or answering questions, sending messages to other students or to PROfound Leadership, or posting photos or other work you upload. Such shared content may be publicly viewable by others depending on where it is posted.

Course Data: When you enrol in and take courses, we collect certain data including which courses, assignments and quizzes you’ve started and completed; your exchanges with us and other students; and answers to questions, and other items submitted to satisfy course requirements.

Student Payment Data: If you make purchases, we collect certain data about your purchase (such as your name and postcode) as necessary to process your order. You must provide certain payment and billing data directly to our payment processing partners, including your name, credit card information, billing address, and postcode. For security, PROfound Leadership does not collect or store sensitive cardholder data, such as full credit card numbers or card authentication data.

Promotions, and Surveys: We may invite you to complete a survey or participate in a promotion (like a contest, or challenge), either through the Services or a third-party platform. If you participate, we will collect and store the data you provide as part of participating, such as your name, email address, date of birth, or phone number. That data is subject to this Privacy Policy unless otherwise stated in the official rules of the promotion or in another privacy policy. The data collected will be used to administer the promotion or survey, including for notifying winners and distributing rewards. To receive a reward, you may be required to allow us to post some of your information publicly (like on a winner’s page). Where we use a third-party platform to administer a survey or promotion, the third party’s privacy policy will apply.

Communications and Support: If you contact us for support or to report a problem or concern (regardless of whether you have created an account), we collect and store your contact information, messages, and other data about you like your name, email address, location, operating system, IP address, and any other data you provide or that we collect through automated means (which we cover below). We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The data listed above is stored by us and associated with your account.

b. Data We Collect through Automated Means

When you access the Services (including browsing the online store and courses), we collect certain data by automated means, including:

Usage Data: Usage statistics about your interactions with the Services, including pages, products and courses accessed, time spent on pages or the Service, pages visited, features used, your search queries, click data, date and time, and other data regarding your use of the Services.

The data listed above is collected through the use of server log files and tracking technologies, as detailed in the “Cookies and Data Collection Tools” section below. It is stored by us and associated with your account.

2. How We Get Data About You

We use tools like cookies, web beacons, analytics services, and advertising providers to gather the data listed above. Some of these tools offer you the ability to opt out of data collection.

a. Cookies and Data Collection Tools

As detailed in our Cookie Policy, PROfound Leadership and service providers acting on our behalf (like Google Analytics and third-party advertisers) use server log files and automated data collection tools like cookies, tags, scripts, customised links, device or browser fingerprints, and web beacons (together, “Data Collection Tools”) when you access and use the Services. These Data Collection Tools automatically track and collect certain System Data and Usage Data (as detailed in Section 1) when you use the Services. In some cases, we tie data gathered through those Data Collection Tools to other data that we collect as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use cookies (small files that websites send to your device to uniquely identify your browser or device or to store data in your browser) for things like analysing your use of the Services, personalising your experience, making it easier to log into the Services, and recognising you when you return. We use web beacons (small objects that allow us to measure the actions of visitors and users using the Services) for things like identifying whether a page was visited, identifying whether an email was opened, and advertising more efficiently by excluding current users from certain promotional messages or identifying the source of a new mobile app download.

PROfound Leadership uses the following types of cookies:

Preferences: cookies that remember data about your browser and preferred settings that affect the appearance and behaviour of the Services (like your preferred language).

Security: cookies used to enable you to log in and access the Services; protect against fraudulent logins; and help detect and prevent abuse or unauthorised use of your account.

Functional: cookies that store functional settings (like the volume level you set for video playback).

Session State: cookies that track your interactions with the Services to help us improve the Services and your browsing experience, remember your login details, and enable processing of your purchases. These are strictly necessary for the Services to work properly, so if you disable them then certain functionalities will break or be unavailable.

You can set your web browser to alert you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, limit the types of cookies you allow, or refuse cookies altogether. If you do, you may not be able to use some or all features of the Services, and your experience may be different or less functional.

Some of the third-party partners who provide certain features on our site may also use Local Storage Objects (also known as flash cookies or LSOs) to collect and store data.

b. Analytics

We use third-party browser and mobile analytics services like Google Analytics, on the Services. These services use Data Collection Tools to help us analyse your use of the Services, including information like the third-party website you arrive from, how often you visit, events within the Services, usage and performance data, and where the application was downloaded from. We use this data to improve the Services, better understand how the Services perform on different devices, and provide information that may be of interest to you.

c. Online Advertising

We use third-party advertising services like Facebook, Google’s ad services, and other ad networks and ad servers to deliver advertising about our Services on other websites and applications you use. The ads may be based on things we know about you, like your Usage Data and System Data (as detailed in Section 1), and things that these ad service providers know about you based on their tracking data. The ads can be based on your recent activity or activity over time and across other sites and services and may be tailored to your interests.

Depending on the types of advertising services we use, they may place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, phone, or other device to collect data about your use of our Services, and may access those tracking technologies in order to serve these tailored advertisements to you. To help deliver tailored advertising, we may provide these service providers with a hashed, anonymized version of your email address (in a non-human-readable form) and content that you share publicly on the Services.

When using mobile applications you may also receive tailored in-app advertisements. Apple iOS, Android OS, and Microsoft Windows each provide their own instructions on how to control in-app tailored advertising. For other devices and operating systems, you should review your privacy settings or contact your platform operator.

3. What We Use Your Data For

We use your data to do things like provide our Services, communicate with you, troubleshoot issues, secure against fraud and abuse, improve and update our Services, analyse how people use our Services, serve personalised advertising, and as required by law or necessary for safety and integrity.

We use the data we collect through your use of the Services to:

Provide and administer the Services, including to display customised content and facilitate communication with other users;

Sending you administrative messages and information, including notifications about changes to our Service, and updates to our agreements;

Sending you information and in-app messages about your progress in courses, new services, new features, promotions, newsletters, and other available courses (which you can opt out of at any time);

Sending push notifications to your wireless device to provide updates and other relevant messages (which you can manage from the “options” or “settings” page of the mobile app);

Manage your account preferences;

Facilitate the Services’ technical functioning, including troubleshooting and resolving issues, securing the Services, and preventing fraud and abuse;

Solicit feedback from users;

Market and administer surveys and promotions administered by PROfound Leadership;

Learn more about you by linking your data with additional data through third-party data providers or analysing the data with the help of analytics service providers;

Identify unique users across devices;

Tailor advertisements across devices;

Improve our Services and develop new products, services, and features;

Analyse trends and traffic, track purchases, and track usage data;

Advertise the Services on third-party websites and applications;

As required or permitted by law; or

As we, in our sole discretion, otherwise determine to be necessary to ensure the safety or integrity of our users, employees, third parties, the public, or our Services.

4. Who We Share Your Information With

We are not in the business of selling information to others. Our sole aim when storing your information is to comply with the law, and to serve you better going forward.

With this in mind, we share certain data about you with other students, companies performing services for us, our business partners, analytics and data enrichment providers, your social media providers, companies helping us run promotions and surveys, and advertising companies who help us promote our Services. We may also share your data as needed for security, legal compliance, or as part of a corporate restructuring. Lastly, we can share data in other ways if it is aggregated or de-identified or if we get your consent.

We may share your data with third parties under the following circumstances or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:

With Other Students: Depending on your settings, your shared content and profile data may be publicly viewable, including to other students. If you ask a question to us, your information (including your name) may also be publicly viewable by other users depending on your settings.

With Service Providers, Contractors, and Agents: We share your data with third-party companies who perform services on our behalf, like payment processing, order deliveries, data analysis, marketing and advertising services (including retargeted advertising), email and hosting services, and customer services and support. These service providers may access your personal data and are required to use it solely as we direct, to provide our requested service.

With Analytics and Data Enrichment Services: As part of our use of third-party analytics tools like Google Analytics, we share certain contact information, Account Data, System Data, Usage Data (as detailed in Section 1), or de-identified data as needed. De-identified data means data where we’ve removed things like your name and email address and replaced it with a token ID. This allows these providers to provide analytics services or match your data with publicly-available database information (including contact and social information from other sources). We do this to communicate with you in a more effective and customised manner.

To Power Social Media Features: The social media features in the Services (like the Facebook Like button) may allow the third-party social media provider to collect things like your IP address and which page of the Services you’re visiting, and to set a cookie to enable the feature. Your interactions with these features are governed by the third-party company’s privacy policy.

To Administer Promotions and Surveys: we may share your data as necessary to administer, market, or sponsor promotions and surveys you choose to participate in, as required by applicable law (like to provide a winners list or make required filings), or in accordance with the rules of the promotion or survey.

For Advertising: If we decide to offer advertising in the future, we may use and share certain System Data and Usage Data with third-party advertisers and networks to show general demographic and preference information among our users. We may also allow advertisers to collect System Data through Data Collection Tools (as detailed in Section 2.a), and to use this data to offer you targeted ad delivery to personalise your user experience (through behavioural advertising) and undertake web analytics. Advertisers may also share with us the data they collect about you. To learn more or opt out from participating ad networks’ behavioural advertising, see Section 6.a (Your Choices About the Use of Your Data) below. Note that if you opt out, you’ll continue to be served generic ads.

For Security and Legal Compliance: We may disclose your data to third parties if we (in our sole discretion) have a good faith belief that the disclosure is:

Permitted or required by law;

Requested as part of a judicial, governmental, or legal inquiry, order, or proceeding;

Reasonably necessary as part of a valid subpoena, warrant, or other legally-valid request;

Required to detect, prevent, or address fraud, abuse, misuse, potential violations of law (or rule or regulation), or security or technical issues; or

Reasonably necessary in our discretion to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property, or safety of PROfound Leadership, our users, employees, members of the public, or our Services.

We may also disclose data about you to our auditors and legal advisors in order to assess our disclosure obligations and rights under this Privacy Policy.

During a Change in Control: If PROfound Leadership undergoes a business transaction like a merger, acquisition, corporate divestiture, or dissolution (including bankruptcy), or a sale of all or some of its assets, we may share, disclose, or transfer all of your data to the successor organisation during such transition or in contemplation of a transition (including during due diligence).

After Aggregation/De-identification: we can disclose or use aggregate or de-identified data for any purpose.

With Your Permission: with your consent, we may share data to third parties outside the scope of this Privacy Policy.

5. How Secure Is Information About Me?

We use appropriate security based on the type and sensitivity of data being stored. As with any internet-enabled system, there is always a risk of unauthorised access, so it’s important to protect your password and to contact us if you suspect any unauthorised access to your account.

PROfound Leadership takes appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal data that we collect and store. These measures vary based on the type and sensitivity of the data. Unfortunately, however, no system can be 100% secured, so we cannot guarantee that communications between you and PROfound Leadership, the Services, or any information provided to us in connection with the data we collect through the Services will be free from unauthorised access by third parties. Your password is an important part of our security system, and it is your responsibility to protect it. You should not share your password with any third party, and if you believe your password or account has been compromised, you should change it immediately and contact info@profoundleadership.com.au with any concerns.

6. Your Rights

You have certain rights around the use of your data, including the ability to opt out of promotional emails, cookies, and collection of your data by certain analytics providers. You can update or terminate your account from within our Services, and can also contact us for individual rights requests about your personal data. Parents who believe we’ve unintentionally collected personal data about their underage child should contact us for help deleting that information.

a. Your Choices About the Use of Your Data

You can choose not to provide certain data to us, but you may not be able to use certain features of the Services.

To stop receiving promotional communications from us, you can opt out by using the unsubscribe mechanism in the promotional communication you receive or by changing the email preferences in your account. Note that regardless of your email preference settings, we will send you transactional and relationship messages regarding the Services, including administrative confirmations, order confirmations, important updates about the Services, and notices about our policies.

The browser or device you use may allow you to control cookies and other types of local data storage. Your wireless device may also allow you to control whether location or other data is collected and shared. You can manage Adobe’s LSOs through their Website Storage Settings

b. Accessing, Updating, and Deleting Your Personal Data

You can access and update your personal data that PROfound Leadership collects and maintains as follows:

To update data you provide directly: log into your account and update your account at any time from “Edit My Profile” in the top right corner.

To request to access, correct, or delete your personal data, email info@profoundleadership.com.au or write to us at PROfound Leadership, 17 Hawthorn Drive, Hoppers Crossing VIC 3029, Australia. Please allow up to 30 days for a response. For your protection, we may require that the request be sent through the email address associated with your account, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. Please note that we retain certain data where we have a lawful basis to do so, including for mandatory record-keeping and to complete transactions.

To unsubscribe from some or all of the email marketing, simply click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of every email you receive from us.

Please note: even after your account is terminated, some or all of your data may still be visible to others, including without limitation any data that has been (a) copied, stored, or disseminated by other users (including in course comment); (b) shared or disseminated by you or others (including in your shared content); or (c) posted to a third-party platform. Even after your account is terminated, we retain your data for as long as we have a legitimate purpose to do so (and in accordance with applicable law), including to assist with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We may retain and disclose such data pursuant to this Privacy Policy after your account has been terminated.

c. Our Policy Concerning Children

We recognise the privacy interests of children and encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children’s online activities and interests. Children under 13 (or under 16 in the European Economic Area) should not use the Services. If we learn that we’ve collected personal data from a child under those ages, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Parents who believe that PROfound Leadership may have collected personal data from a child under those ages can submit a request that it be removed to info@profoundleadership.com.au.

7. Updates & Contact Info

Modifications to This Privacy Policy: From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy. If we make any material change to it, we will notify you via email, through a notification posted on the Services, or as required by applicable law. We will also include a summary of the key changes. Unless stated otherwise, modifications will become effective on the day they are posted.

As permitted by applicable law, if you continue to use the Services after the effective date of any change, then your access and/or use will be deemed an acceptance of (and agreement to follow and be bound by) the revised Privacy Policy. The revised Privacy Policy supersedes all previous Privacy Policies.

Questions: If you have any questions, concerns, or disputes regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact PROfound Leadership at info@profoundleadership.com.au. You can also send postal mail to us at PROfound Leadership, Attn: Privacy, 17 Hawthorn Drive, Hoppers Crossing VIC 3029, Australia.

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 16 May 2018 You can choose to accept or decline cookies. By closing the originally displayed banner, scrolling the PROfound Leadership pages, clicking a link or continuing to browse otherwise, you agree to the use of cookies. If you want to withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, you can do so at any time.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored by your browser as you browse the internet. They can be used to collect, store, and share data about your activities across websites, including on PROfound Leadership. Cookies also allow us to remember things about your visits to PROfound Leadership, like your preferred language, and to make the site easier to use. We use both session cookies, which expire after a short time or when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain stored in your browser for a set period of time. We use session cookies to identify you during a single browsing session, like when you log into PROfound Leadership. We use persistent cookies where we need to identify you over a longer period, like when you request that we keep you signed in.

Why does PROfound Leadership use cookies and similar technologies?

We use cookies and similar technologies like web beacons, pixel tags, or local shared objects (“flash cookies”), to deliver, measure, and improve our services in various ways. We use these cookies both when you visit our site and services through a browser and through our mobile app. As we adopt additional technologies, we may also gather additional data through other methods. We use cookies for the following purposes: Authentication and security

To log you into PROfound Leadership

To protect your security

To help detect and fight spam, abuse, and other activities that violate PROfound Leadership’s agreements

For example, cookies help us remember your preferred language or the country you’re in, so we can provide content in your preferred language without asking each time you visit. Analytics and research

To help us improve and understand how people use PROfound Leadership

For example, cookies help us test different versions of PROfound Leadership to see which features or content users prefer, web beacons help us determine which email messages are opened, and cookies help us see how you interact with PROfound Leadership, like the links you click on. We also work with a number of analytics partners, including Google Analytics, who use cookies and similar technologies to help us analyse how users use the Services, including by noting the sites from which you arrive. Those service providers may either collect that data themselves or we may disclose it to them. You can opt out of some of these services through tools like the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Personalized content

To customise PROfound Leadership with more relevant content

For example, cookies help us show a personalised list of recommended courses on the homepage. Advertising

To provide you with more relevant advertising

To learn more about targeting and advertising cookies and how you can opt out, visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html, or if you’re located in the European Union, visit the Your Online Choices site. Please note that where advertising technology is integrated into the Services, you may still receive advertising on other websites and applications, but it will not be tailored to your interests. When using mobile applications you may also receive tailored in-app advertisements. Apple iOS, Android OS, and Microsoft Windows each provide its own instructions on how to control in-app tailored advertising. For other devices and operating systems, you should review your privacy settings or contact your platform operator.

What are my privacy options?

You have a number of options to control or limit how we and our partners use cookies:

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change your browser settings to decline cookies by consulting your browser’s support articles. If you decide to decline cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in, customise, or use some interactive features in the Services. Please find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

For general information about targeting cookies and how to disable them, visit allaboutcookies.org.

Updates & Contact Info

From time to time, we may update this Cookie Policy. If we do, we’ll notify you by posting the policy on our site with a new effective date. If we make any material changes, we’ll take reasonable steps to notify you in advance of the planned change. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please email us at info@profoundleadership.com.au.

Melbourne

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you want to know more or withdraw your consent to all or some of the cookies, please refer to our Privacy Policy page by clicking the "Read more" button. By closing this banner, scrolling this page, clicking a link or continuing to browse otherwise, you agree to the use of cookies.OkNoRead more